Re: Reading huge files

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Leonid Grinberg wrote:
> I need to read a file, which contains approximately 1.2GB of data.
> Obviously, this is well above the maximum buffer limit. Is there any
> way for me to read it without
> 
> 1) breaking it up into smaller files and
> 2) using a different editor

Not that I'm aware of.  You could cook up something like:

(defun view-large-file-contents (file beg end)
   "View FILE contents from bytes BEG through END, in View mode."
   (interactive "fView file: \nnFrom byte: \nnTo byte: ")
   (switch-to-buffer
    (generate-new-buffer (format "%s[%d,%d]"
				(file-name-nondirectory file) beg end)))
   (insert-file-contents file nil beg end)
   (view-mode 1))

> I am using GNU Emacs 21.4.1 on Ubuntu Edgy Eft on a Dell Latitude C600
> with 256MB of memory.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA